This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

Brazil captivates visitors with its vibrant culture, stunning beaches, the vast Amazon rainforest, the iconic Christ the ...

Besides Trump's withdrawal already from the Paris climate agreement, advocates fear he'll cut U.S. funding for policing that ...

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut ...

Billionaire Elon Musk, who is leading government cost reduction in the new administration, said the humanitarian agency, ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Image via Neil Palmer/CIAT, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.